Use of beer wort granulate for non-alcoholic beer-based beverages
This article describes new industrial production concepts for non-alcoholic malt-based beverages/functional drinks for the international beverage industry. These open up new possibilities for utilising existing production capacities in breweries.
Beer consumption continues to drop, the tendency is increasingly towards "non-alcoholic". In the wake of the big success of traditional beer-based beverages such as shandy, an obvious move was to mix non-alcoholic beer with soft drink components in order to sell it opportunely, as e.g. "non-alcoholic shandy" or also as an isotonic thirst quencher.